§ Mr. A. E. Cooperasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has 90W made of the cost to the Exchequer and to local rates if all fee paying to universities were to be abolished.
§ Mr. BarberThe total income of universities from fees is at present estimated at about £8 million a year, of which approximately £7 million is met from central and local public funds. No cost to public funds would arise from their abolition—indeed there would be an immediate saving. If fees at present paid by individuals, and not reimbursed out of public funds, were to become a charge on public funds, the amount involved is estimated at approximately £1 million a year.